Category:Crocodile (ship, 1892)

English: Crocodile was a steel-hulled four-masted barque built in 1892 by Southampton Naval Works Co., Southampton for Peel, Macalister & Son, Liverpool. Her dimensions were: length × beam × depth = 288.4 × 41.2 × 24.5 ft (87.9 × 12.5 × 7.4 m), she had a tonnage of 2555 GRT and 2424 NRT and she rigged with royal sails above double top- and topgallant sails. 1915 she sold to A/S Excelsior (Sven O. Stray & Co.), Kristiansand, Norway and was renamed Storegut. The vessel was sunk in 1917 on voyage from Philadelphia to Le Havre with a cargo of case oil by the German submarine U 82 in position 48°23'N, 10°18' W, 235 miles south of Lands End. ^[1][2]